Punk's traveling caravan turns 10

"I do still enjoy touring (in general)," Baker said. "But the
Warped Tour specifically, I really look forward to it. It's a great
way to see music, and if you're performing, you spend 23 hours a
day with all of these bands that we've been friends with for so
many years. It's really a pleasure.

Beyond the camaraderie, Baker said he thinks bands appreciate
the Warped Tour's ethic of equal opportunity.

"It's an entirely egalitarian system," he said. "No matter how
big your band is, everybody still plays a half hour. And no matter
how big your band is, nobody knows when they're going to play until
it (the schedule) is posted on the big board in the morning. So
people qualify bands as headliners by, I guess, their status when
they see a print ad. People just assume the better-known bands are
the headliners, but there is no headliner.

I think that has a lot to do with it (the appeal for bands).
It's very put

your ego in the back seat and just go play good music. "Also
when you have over a hundred buses filled with these lunatics just
roaming around the country, it's almost got this 'Mad Max' feel in
that it makes you bond tighter," Baker said. "You just feel like
pirates, just out there. It's really cool. It's maybe a little
childlike, but there's nothing wrong with that. I'm old enough to
appreciate what it was like to go to summer camp. And this is
summer camp with instruments."